As a proof that we are regenerated, we must regenerate everything around us.

Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them. It is within that we should write, think, and speak, not merely on paper.

I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.

All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to prompt us towards the eternal truths shown beneath a veil, and to lead us to recover what we have lost.

All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.

As a proof that we are regenerated, we must regenerate everything around us.

God is a fixed paradise; man should be a paradise in motion.